Folder size limitations

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Just wondering if anyone knows if there is a limit to the
number of subfolders one can place within a given folder
in XP...

Thanks
 
Fred said:
Just wondering if anyone knows if there is a limit to the
number of subfolders one can place within a given folder
in XP...
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Only in so far as a FAT 32 drive has a limit of 64K for the number of
entries in a directory - and bear in mind that any item with a name that
is even notionally 'long' will have additional entries used, one for
every 13 characters. So in the tens of thousands. NTFS does not have
that limit intrinsically, but the system probably enforces it anyway, so
as to avoid having to check all the time
 
Alex Nichol said:
Only in so far as a FAT 32 drive has a limit of 64K for the number of
entries in a directory - and bear in mind that any item with a name that
is even notionally 'long' will have additional entries used, one for
every 13 characters. So in the tens of thousands. NTFS does not have
that limit intrinsically, but the system probably enforces it anyway, so
as to avoid having to check all the time
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No it doesn't. The only limit to the number of files in NTFS is that
you can't have more than 4,294,967,295 on a partition. There's no
limit to how many you can have in a single directory other than that.

See
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/tr...prodtechnol/winxppro/reskit/prkc_fil_tdrn.asp
 
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